Hirotada Tokugawa

Hirotada Tokugawa (1526-) was a daimyo of Japan who was the lord of the Mikawa Tokugawa clan. Hirotada was the father of the future shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa and a vassal of Yoshimoto Imagawa, and for the early years of his tenure as feudal lord, he fought against the Oda clan.

Biography
Hirotada Tokugawa was born in 1526 to the Tokugawa/Matsudaira clan of Mikawa Prefecture, in present-day Japan. Hirotada became the daimyo at a young age and commanded an army into the Oda clan's Owari Province at the age of 19 while serving as a vassal of Yoshimoto Imagawa.